Cross-Cultural World History
UndergraduateGRF-HSY3162025
Step into the pages of history to discover how colonisation took place through exchanges involving gender, sexuality, trade, travel, conflict and law. Explore the circulation of ideas and people across the globe and consider colonial violence.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Cross-Cultural World History
About this subject
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- identify the central aims and objectives of cross-cultural history
- understand the place of cross-cultural history in world historical context
- recognise and compare the complexities and varieties within specific contact histories
- place the history of cross-cultural contact within the larger frameworks of transnational, imperial and colonial history
- apply ways of thinking about contact and cross-cultural exchange to rethinking world history
- employ analytical thinking skills and reflect critically and ethically on the above issues
- analyse, evaluate and synthesise a range of historical images and texts
- develop sustained, logical and informed arguments about the dynamics of cross-cultural world history
- appreciate and evaluate the variety of approaches to cross-cultural world history
- draw on a knowledge of history to understand the complexities and dynamics shaping, forging and limiting cross-cultural exchange.
- Cross-Cultural Contact: Rethinking Colonial History
- The Legacies of Slavery: A Cross-Cultural Approach to World History
- Pacific First Contact: On the Beach
- Early Sydney: Intercultural Exchange?
- Sex and Intermarriage: Gender and Race in the Colonies
- Performance and Display: The Case of Sara Baartman
- Museums and Exhibits: A Cross-Cultural History of Things
Cross-Cultural World History investigates the experience of colonisation from both sides of contact (c.1700-1950) and in light of cross-cultural exchanges involving gender and sexuality, trade, travel narratives, conflict and law, and intercultural exchanges between coloniser and colonised. It will cover a range of historical case studies and approaches to cross-cultural contact in world history including in the New World, Australasia and the Pacific and North America, and through applying recent theories of 'contact', space and bodies; the transnational circulation of ideas, people and things; and the place of intercultural exchange in the broader context of colonial violence.
- Minor Essay (35%)
- Quizzes (20%)
- Major Essay (45%)
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